Rails - Jun 2006 - History plugin

Hello,


I felt annoyed enough when having to redirect user back to their 
previous location in a hackish way that I wrote this plugin.

It avoids storing POST and Ajax request. It also has a facility to 
specify actions not to store in the history. 

If you are interested, it''s there:
http://blog.cosinux.org/pages/rails-history

See you all,

Damien

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On Jun 1, 2006, at 12:33, Damien MERENNE wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I felt annoyed enough when having to redirect user back to their
> previous location in a hackish way that I wrote this plugin.
>
> It avoids storing POST and Ajax request. It also has a facility to
> specify actions not to store in the history.
>
> If you are interested, it''s there:
> http://blog.cosinux.org/pages/rails-history
Cool!

Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming  
idioms. I blogged about it here:

   http://advogato.org/person/fxn/diary.html?start=441

-- fxn

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Xavier Noria
wrote:
> Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming  
> idioms. I blogged about it here:
> 
>   http://advogato.org/person/fxn/diary.html?start=441
Thank you very much! I did not thought it could serve as tutorial.
Great article.


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       trademarked names for his left and right legs.

On 02/06/2006, at 5:20 PM, Damien MERENNE wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Xavier Noria wrote:
>> Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming
>> idioms. I blogged about it here:
>>
>>   http://advogato.org/person/fxn/diary.html?start=441
>
> Thank you very much! I did not thought it could serve as tutorial.
> Great article.
Quick point, as Xavier''s diary doesn''t support comments.

Module#append_features is deprecated. Module#included is the new kid  
on the block, and no need to call super!

def self.included(base)
   base.extend(ClassMethods)
end

-- tim lucas

On Jun 2, 2006, at 13:05, Tim Lucas wrote:
> On 02/06/2006, at 5:20 PM, Damien MERENNE wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0200, Xavier Noria wrote:
>>> Looked to me like a good plugin to explain those metaprogramming
>>> idioms. I blogged about it here:
>>>
>>>   http://advogato.org/person/fxn/diary.html?start=441
>>
>> Thank you very much! I did not thought it could serve as tutorial.
>> Great article.
>
> Quick point, as Xavier''s diary doesn''t support comments.
>
> Module#append_features is deprecated. Module#included is the new  
> kid on the block, and no need to call super!
>
> def self.included(base)
>   base.extend(ClassMethods)
> end
Thank you!

Is there a reason to call class_eval inside history()?

   def history(options)
     logger.debug("history: setting up history")
     include History::InstanceMethods
     class_eval do
       ActionController::Base.history_container =  
History::Container.new(options)
       after_filter :store_location
     end
   end

Wouldn''t that code work without class_eval? (See mock-up below, where  
croak is after_filter, and tryme is history)

-- fxn



class Base
   def self.croak
     puts "croak! in #{self}"
   end
end

module M1
   def self.included(base)
     base.extend(M2)
   end

   module M2
     def tryme
       croak
     end
   end
end

class Base
   include M1
end

Base.tryme # -> croak! in Base

On 1-jun-2006, at 12:33, Damien MERENNE wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I felt annoyed enough when having to redirect user back to their
> previous location in a hackish way that I wrote this plugin.
>
> It avoids storing POST and Ajax request. It also has a facility to
> specify actions not to store in the history.
>
> If you are interested, it''s there:
> http://blog.cosinux.org/pages/rails-history
Damien, I have implemented a similar plugin a while ago, it''s called  
Track. Maybe we could just fuse them into one?

http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/track/
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